valleywag.com — It's the place you go for Family Guy clips and last night's Jon Stewart interview. But some day, if it doesn't die first, YouTube will have to sell out, and the buyer will become a juicy legal target for every other media company. What clips are in danger if one of these top potential buyers bites?
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aliarseSep 30, 2006
None of them are in danger, they'll just be put onto another video sharing website. Soon as ones taken down, another is made to fill its shoes. See bit torrent for an example of how it works.
Closed AccountSep 30, 2006
And Google has got tons of money I think. Doesnt GVid stick up for Copyright laws? They pull music videos that are in the free section AND the paying section. They pulled some tv shows
martalliSep 30, 2006
"Social Networking is the new dot bomb"Agreed. Anyone can throw up a site with forums...CMS, web forums, etc are all open source and can be created with great ease. With a fairly low barrier to entry, there are zillions of social networking sites, discussion boards, etc. Some of these social netowrking sites will thrive in the long run, but most are going to turn little or no profit.
Closed AccountSep 30, 2006
Where's Teller? Oh, that's right - Teller never posts...
martalliSep 30, 2006
100% of statistics on this particular thread were poulled out of arses, for instance. /humour
yashuSep 30, 2006
They don't follow them because that are... well... silly. Just an excuse for lawyers to make money while large corporations fight with each other. Just lately, technology is allowing the average joe to piss off large corporations too... and there isn't as much money to be had suing the average joe! So what does an animal do during the last throes of life? Lash out violently trying to cling on to every last bit of lifeblood, trying so desperately to maintain the past. It won't be alive much longer, but it can still do some damage as it bleeds all over the nice carpet under the chair you watch YOUTUBE on the computer with!
loganrappSep 30, 2006
It's too easy to "leak" some juicy bits of television and have it spread across the globe for pretty much free. That kind of free advertising is too good for the execs to shut down. Someone will try to buy it, yes, but it won't die out. No one's going to shut it down.
yashuSep 30, 2006
yes I fail to see the huge problem. We get a service that makes us actually feel like we are finally living in the new millenium... don't go around saying it's a problem, they might be able to use that as a defense of taking it down... (shhhhh... they can here you.... *looks around*)
videoctSep 30, 2006
I think we should let YouTube do what it wants to do. They presumably have lawyers at the ready, and supposedly are not yet making a profit. The ads they do sell are helping pay for the bandwidth, but with millions of daily viewers, YouTube is in a predicament. The partners they have such as NBC put short preview clips of their tv shows which few people watch (comparatively speaking) and at the same time NBC requires YouTube to take down NBC materials, which in reality makes for fewer YouTube viewers. So it seems YouTube alienates its audience by attempting to make money.Maybe You tube should charge a subscription fee, say $5 a month, cheaper than Netflix, and since they always need more bandwidth, they will always almost break even but never make a profit. Their revenue to profit curve approaches profitable for infinity but never gets there.